i just wanna know...how do you get it anyways?

They are like little shrimps. You can buy them from petstores. You can buy them frozen too. YOur goldies will like them.


-calico

They come frozen, freeze dried in little containers like fish food, or you can buy them in little hatching kits and get live ones.

Did you ever hear of sea monkeys? They were little black things you put in water and they hatched, lol. It was a gimmack foir kids, but anyways, those are brine shrimp.

There used to be a great little fish shop that had a huge tank of live brine shrimp. They would swish a little net in there and bag them up. Years ago they closed. And no one else bothers with live brine shrimp

You have never seen a more excited fish then when you put in live brine shrimp!!

theres a store here that sells em.....just a bunch of cloudy water with specks floating...im guessing teh specks are the brine shrimp?

Your goldies haven't lived until they had live brine shrimp!

thanks but how do you grow them exactly?

Don't even try it. Your entire house will smell like a Shrimp Boat and your parents will throw you out of the house!

thanks, i see that you have a bad experience with them, but if i buy them from the store
then how do i save them so the fish can eat it later? how long can they live?

No I never tried but I read it in a book not to bother as the smell would be awful. They can sell you as much as you want. If you want to try it, just ask for one meal portion. I usually get 4 meal portion and since I feed them twice a day, it lasts two days. I would not get any more than that at once. I think they only live a few days or so. They are also lot more money than plain fish food so I would just get it as an occasional treat for your goldies.

thanks

Okay... hmmm... well I got my trial size 2g of free NZ brine shrimp in the mail... what next.

I need salt water and warmth I think... anything else?

:)Brine Shrimp are actually "Artema".I think it's easier to show you a site than to explain Artema,Zooplankton,etc. Alot of times,when you get those Brine Shrimp packages,they allready have the salt that you need to do it.Read your package to see if this is the case or not. I raised Brine Shrimp for my Betta's when they had babies,and had no problem with the smell at all.You can use a Large Soda Bottle,Fish tank,Jar,etc. to hatch them out in.They're actually pretty simple to hatch. I found that my Brine Shrimp lived alot longer when I started keeping an airstone in their water. Check this out,it may be able to help you out some . Brine Shrimp It may sound somewhat "technical".If you do a search on Ask Jeeves,you'll find all kind of info on Brine Shrimp!

Thanks.

No wonder sea monkeys never seemed to do much.... heating, lighting, air bubbles...

Is more ordinary heating... like say the top of the fridge... and more ordinary lighting, like say a lamp, going to cut it in the world of brine shimp?

There's a reason I have coldwater fish.

It's just about summertime here so you don't really need a heater. As for the light,I didn't even use one,and when I wanted to catch the Brine Shrimp,I used the light of a flashlight to lure them to the top of the 2 gal. tank they were in.Nothing fancy about it for sure!

But I'm in the Southern Hemisphere. Winter's just started.

The fry tank is inside and that's only 14C. I can't think of anything that's constantly warm... we're not big on constant heat down here, the water heater's outside... even the fridge motors aren't cranking out enough heat.

Thanks for your suggestions tho. Putting thinking hat on...

mkan i'm in the tropic of cancer so it's pretty hot here

OMG i used to have the sea monkeys HAHAH
i never knew they were the shrimp rofl